If most of us need to see a therapist from time to time, athletes require the help of psychologists above all. Sometimes they are stressed beyond the limit or simply need some help to learn fast and efficiently. After all, showing the best performance requires more than regular workouts. It also depends on the athlete’s readiness to new challenges, their ability to comprehend new skills and adapt to a hostile environment. Focusing on their physical strength, athletes frequently overlook their thinking of themselves and of the ongoing event. Here sports psychologists enter the field with the essential mental
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Surveying athletes’ practice and performance, sports psychologists concluded that visualisation helps players to cope with stress before competitions and boost their performance. The technique is as simple as imagining the moves the athlete is about to perform. Rehearsing the activity in mind certainly does not replace a physical workout but it still has benefits. The player can better concentrate on their technique and posture imagining the move. It will be more polished than the same move in the real life, the quality athletes lack in their daily workouts. Visualisation is effective for experienced players who can implement their imagery
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Though the athlete’s performance mostly depends on their own skills, people in sports usually need an employer and a few professionals working with them. Signing contracts and playing for different teams, athletes encounter plenty of legal and financial issues that lie beyond their competence. To handle all matters unrelated to playing sports, professional athletes hire sports managers and lawyers. A sports lawyer has a plenty of tasks to do for their clients. First, they are official representatives of the athlete to coaches, team owners, sponsors, and managers. A player always has their legal and financial interests that the
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Celebrities, teachers, and elder peers inevitably become role models for children. Sooner or later they look up at people surrounding them (physically or virtually) and follow the ones they like the most. It is rather important for a child to have an athlete as a role model, no matter whether it is a world-famous super-star or their local school coach. Despite many athletes leave a trail of scandals in the mass media, they also possess a dozen of qualities that influence an early character formation. Sports celebrities often evoke interest to sports in children. Watching competitions with their
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People played sports as early as 15,000 years ago. Cave paintings of Paleolithic and Neolithic Age depict sprinting and wrestling scenes. Rocks in Libya preserve the evidence of swimming and archery carved in about 6000 century BC. Among them, boxing and wrestling were the most popular sports in most ancient civilizations. Both of them originated in ancient Sumer. Stones and clay tablets depicting Sumerian wrestlers are now stored in the National Museum of Iraq. Tombs of Egyptian pharaohs portray even more sports, including weightlifting, shooting, fishing, and rowing. Despite sports were played all over the world, Ancient Greece was the
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